More amusingly, we also kinda skimmed over the American Revolution.
I'm actually curious about what England tends to think of that. What their side of the story is.
My impression was that they try not to think about it.
Unfortunately, though the revolution is obviously important in American history and world history since then, it is not really considered significant enough in British history to warrant class time outside specific study of colonialism. Just another transfer of colonial power at a time when they were being traded about like football cards.
Remember, they've got to get from 96CE to the end of the Cold War just to get a good impression of British History, never mind the stuff they do about other cultures like the Greeks, Romans, Vikings and Egyptians. The Industrial Revolution, scramble for Empire, the First World War and the Second World War all get almost whole years devoted to them.
I get the impression from talking to Americans that the revolution is another of the world's great one sided rivalries, like Germany vs Holland. They tend to expect it to be thought of as a great national shame spoken of in hushed tones or an instant beserk button for any Englishman. When most Brits are only vaguely aware of it, and even then only in the context of another plot by the dastardly French before we licked them at Waterloo.
If you're looking for an English perspective though, it's seen as a sort of double edged sword. On the one hand, it is seen as a great stepping stone towards democracy building on the British tradition of individual rights (debatable, I know). On the other hand it's often thought that the true motives of the founding fathers were based on tax evasion to increase their personal wealth rather than freedom. We also don't get why you all hate King George so much, who was relatively benign for a European monarch. We've had Cromwell and Henry VIII, so it's hard to paint him as the tyrant you guys do.